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The price of Ether jumped over 50% within seven days following the activation of the Pectra upgrade in May. Could Fusaka light the fuse for a Pectra-esque rally?
Fusaka Goes Live
Fusaka (a blend of the names Fulu and Osaka) went live at the start of Epoch 411392 on Dec 3, following successful test deployments across the Holesky, Sepolia, and Hoodi test networks throughout October. The hard fork finalized within approximately 15 minutes, suggesting that the code changes were implemented smoothly.
Besides the several UX and scaling improvements introduced via the upgrade, Fusaka also marks a new era of rapid development for the Ethereum community.
At the centre of Fusaka is the headline feature, PeerDAS (Peer Data Availability Sampling), which was introduced via EIP-7594. PeerDAS allows each node to store only a fraction of the data posted, rather than entire “blobs”, reducing both transactional costs and computational load for validators and layer-2 networks.
 
“PeerDAS in Fusaka is important because it literally represents sharding,” Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin wrote in a post on X celebrating the development. “Sharding has been a dream for Ethereum since 2015, and data availability sampling since 2017, and now we have it.”
Fusaka, the 17th “major” Ethereum network structural improvement, came roughly seven months after May’s Pectra update.
Fusaka also adds Blob-Parameter-Only (BPO) configuration tweaks, which allow clients to raise blob capacity without a full hard fork.
Will Fusaka Fuel Mega ETH Price Rally?
Ether bulls roared back to life after Fusaka, with the second-largest crypto in the world trading between $3,150 and $3,210, CoinGecko data shows. ETH is currently up 4.4% over the last 24 hours, trading hands at $3,192.34 as of press time.
Given the slew of under-the-hood network improvements Fusaka will provide, spectators are anticipating how the price of Ether will react.
Last month, widely-followed Bitcoin OG @LLuciano_BTC echoed similar sentiments in a post on the X platform. “Fusaka feels even bigger, the kind of catalyst that sparks real upside,” he said at the time. “Ethereum finally shows how far scaling can go while staying true to its design.”
Most recently, MerlijnTrader also cited the impact of Ethereum’s Pectra on ETH, suggesting that the price could surge even more this time around, calling Fusaka “the most underrated catalyst of Q4.”
“Pectra triggered a +58% move. Fusaka is built to launch harder. Price lags fundamentals. But not for long.”